I wanted to make an easy card and the first stamp set I noticed was With You In Mind. I thought, “I will just stamp the large greeting and stamp a few flowers around in the background.” Easy peasy. While thinking about what color to use for the card base, I decided to pull out the Color Coach. The Color Coach is the Stampin’ Up! version of the color wheel. What jumped out at me was to use Analogous colors, which are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. I chose Melon Mambo, Bubble Bath, and Fresh Freesia. I wasn’t sure those three were going to make a pretty card, but supposedly the Color Coach says so! I think it was right, once I finished the card!
The card base is Melon Mambo with a Basic White layer. The two colors of flowers that I used aren’t too different, or maybe I need to reink my ink pad. I stamped some flowers in Bubble Bath ink and some in Fresh Freesia. You probably can’t tell the difference in the photo, but I can’t tell much difference in person either.
The “Thinking of You” greeting is stamped in Melon Mambo ink. I love the font and size of the greetings in this stamp set. I did take some time to play around with the colors or stamping on colored cardstock, but ended up with the Melon Mambo ink on white. Then I had to figure out how to layer it or place it on the card.
One thing you should put on your Shopping List for the new Online Exclusives are the Textured Notes Dies. I think you will like them and use them a lot. Each rectangle die has a different border and they layer together nicely in lots of different sizes. Once I was able to fit the greeting onto one of the dies, then I used the next larger die to cut out a Bubble Bath cardstock layer. Since I didn’t want to take up any more space on the card with a larger die, I simply cut a piece of Fresh Freesia cardstock just 1/8″ larger on all sides to layer under the Bubble Bath cardstock. This gave me all three colors I was using on the Color Coach right there in the center of the card.
This is very unlike me, but I happened to place the greeting at an angle and I really liked it. I think it makes the card even happier with a little whimsy that just putting it on straight. I could have popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals but I just adhered it flat….AFTER adhering some ribbon tails on each side. As I started looking in my ribbon basket, I came across this pretty Bubble Bath Sheer Ribbon from a Combo Pack. This ribbon is now retired, but I used it because it was perfect for this card. I cut two pieces of ribbon, about 2″ each and folded them in half, in a V-shape spacing out the ends, and adhered them to the back of the card. For another embellishment, I used some of the Purple Sequins that were free during Sale-A-Bration. They were laying right there and looked like perfect matches so I used them, but if you don’t have them you have lots of other choices for sequins or gems on your card.
I started out not too inspired, not too enthused in that moment to make a card, and eventually came up wtih this card that I really liked! You just never know what will happen when you start making a card!
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